The Schoolmaster in Comedy and Satire: Arranged and Edited for the Special Use of Teachers' Reading Circles and Round Tables (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Schoolmaster in Comedy and Satire: Arranged and Edited for the Special Use of Teachers' Reading Circles and Round Tables

The selections from Rabelais and Fenelon are revisions of old and standard English versions. The translations from Berquin, Scribe, Gogol, and Eckstein are original and new, having been prepared expressly for this volume. The render ing of The Visit to the Cell is by the late Hanford Skinner, and represents the last literary work of a gentleman of rare scholarship and promise.

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